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Quotes About Conflict

Wojna to troch? rze?nia, a troch? rutyna i nie ma co czepia? si? zanadto szczegó?ów.
~ Italo Calvino
E combattendo, troveranno che le parole non hanno più significato.
~ Italo Calvino
e la guerra cos'è poi se non questo passarsi di mano in mano roba sempre più ammaccata?
~ Italo Calvino
Thus the days went by at Terralba, and our sensibilities became numbed, as we felt ourselves lost between an evil and a virtue equally inhuman.
~ Italo Calvino
The generations stare at each other grimly, they speak only to misunderstand each other, to trade blame for growing up unhappy and dying disappointed.
~ Italo Calvino
V jedné jediné mali?kosti se s Augustou neshodujeme, a to v názoru, jak zacházet se zlobivými dÄ›tmi: já si myslím, že bolest dítÄ›te je ménÄ› d?ležitá než naÅ¡e a že je lepÅ¡í zp?sobit bolest dítÄ›ti, jestliže to dospÄ›lého uÅ¡etÃ…â"¢í velké mrzutosti, kdežto ona se domnívá, že jsme dítÄ› zplodili, a tak je musíme taky snáÅ¡et.
~ Italo Svevo
In the conflict between Israelis and Arabs you have wounded civilizations — the Arabs have been wounded in their dealings with the West, and an insecure Jewish people have gone through terrible disasters and traumas. There is no end to the Jewish quest for security, and there is no end for the Arab quest for redress and dignity. It is very difficult to reconcile the two.
~ Unknown
strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.
~ Unknown
strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake. A strong actor's low interests imply high political vulnerability, and a weak actor's high interests imply low political vulnerability.
~ Unknown
Crescere nella condizione di bambino significa essere condannati ad un conflitto disumano tra la propria coscienza di sé e il ruolo imposto da una società che sta attraversando la propria età scolare.
~ Ivan Illich
War ... has become impossible, except at the price of suicide.
~ Unknown
And as in the opinion of many authorities the last word concerning explosives has not yet been said, in the war of the future, especially if it should take place some years from now, explosives of such strength will be employed that the concentration of armies in the open field, or even under the cover of fortifications, will be almost impossible, so that the apparatus of war prepared at the present time may prove itself useless.
~ Unknown
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
~ Izaak Walton
Gegenwärtiges und Zukünftiges, Erfahrung und Hoffnung treten in der christlichen Eschatologie in Widerspruch zueinander, so daß durch sie dem Menschen nicht Entsprechung und Einstimmigkeit mit dem Gegebenen zuteil wird, sondern er in den Widerstreit von Hoffnung und Erfahrung hineingezogen wird.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
~ J. B. Priestley
I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.
~ Unknown
If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.
~ Unknown
Always sighed deep. "Don't talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain't.
~ J. California Cooper
They was in the farmyard and she just picked up a pitchfork and stabbed him with it.
~ J. California Cooper
dark side took over, and things got…out of hand. He always felt bad afterward. But while Martin
~ Unknown
Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze.
~ J. G. Ballard
They killed to free themselves from a tyranny of love and care.
~ J. G. Ballard
Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.
~ J. G. Ballard
that it is not the Christianity of the New Testament which is in conflict with science, but the supposed Christianity of the modern liberal Church, and that the real city of God, and that city alone, has defences which are capable of warding off the assaults of modern unbelief. However
~ J. Gresham Machen